Good point. However, I doubt that Trump doesn’t know about David Duke and what he stands for. I heard Trump plead ignorance about Duke but the former is too smart to have no knowledge about him. Trump simply does not want to lose any of his constituents and he is concerned that some of them support Duke’s ideology.
I could forgive not knowing who David Duke is. maybe but KKK he should know. Given his age he should know who that awful group is.
I’m younger than Trump by over 30 years and I know who David Duke is. I just can’t buy his feigned ignorance on this one.
Of course Trump knows about the KKK and I believe he is also familiar with the ideology of David Duke. The fact that he does know about them makes his refusal to reject Duke’s endorsement so bad. I will, however, give him the benefit of playing politics, poorly in this instance, rather than actually approving of Duke’s ideas.
That’s why I’m not a strong Christian.
There are somethings you shouldn’t be playing politics with. Trump has also been race baiting for a long time. If people don’t have the wisdom or clarity to recognize what this is I have no words.
It **must **not go down that road, but it lamentably can.
Rubio is out of his league, just giving Trump more ammo.
The whole kkk thing is such a gotcha. Trump had already disavowed the endorsent twice. What more do people want?
Mainstream people can see clear as day what the media is trying to do. He already had disavowed it but they kept asking and asking. Trump is not kkk and who cares if they like him? Who cares?!
Some honesty pehaps?
It seems Tump gives me something daily as to why I should not vote for him because I can’t trust his word.
He makes the media’s job easy when he tells lies like not knowing who David Duke is. Yes…it is Donald Trump who giving me something seemingly every day.
I don’t know what happened with him knowing David duke or not. One article says that he condemned duke in 2000. So if he did that in 2000 already, what is the problem? Either way, this is a nothing burger cooked up by the media like many others. Mainstream people don’t care. Now if you have a tendency to dislike trump, then you’ve found more material. Suit yourself.
His disavowal in 2000 contrasted with his ambivalence in 2016 makes him look craven and opportunistic–which he is, of course.
My problem with Trump is that he changes position seemingly all the time. He obviously figures that changing his mind about something all the time is a winning strategy. He disavowed Duke in 2000, then denies even knowing who he is in 2016, then disavows him again.
He has disavowed their endorsement now, at least twice. The media will keep asking and asking and asking until they get some kind of bombshell. Put yourself in that position and see if you can always please everyone.
Knowing about a person is not exactly the same as knowing someone. I can know about David Duke (which I don’t) and don’t really know him.
He does seem to be made of Teflon!